Method of making combined smooth-surface paintings and relief pictures



( No Model.)

O. J. R. BERNEBJ.

METHOD OI MAKING COMBINED SMOOTH SURFACE PAINTINGS AND RELIEF PICTURES.

1 No. 449,721. I Patented Apr. 7, 1891.

Witnesses: Inventor:

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OTTO .I. R. BERNER, OF LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA. I

METHOD OF MAKING COMBINED SMOOTH-SURFACE PAINTINGS AND RELIEF PICTURES.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent No. 449,727, dated April.7, 1891.

Application filed August 25, 1890. Serial No. 363,058. (No specimens.)

T0 at whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OTTO J; R. BERNER, a citizen of the United States,residingin Lancaster, in the county of Lancaster and State ofPennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Methods of .MakingCombined SmootlrSur-facelainted and Relief Pictures, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in methods of making pictures orpaintings in which a part or parts are shown on a plain surface andothers by raised surfaces or surfaces in relief; and the object of theinvention is to produce pictures in which the perspective may be broughtout with greater distinctness and with less labor than when the wholepicture is painted on a plain surface.

The invention consists, first, in forming the foreground or moreprominent parts of a picture, be theyeither figures of living creaturesor parts of landscapes or topography, in relief on a plain surface, onwhich the remaining parts of the picture are or maybe painted, and,second, in the manner of making the composition forming the parts inrelief and applying the same to the plain surface. I

In the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification,is shown a picture made by my method.

Figure 1 is a face view of the picture, and Fig. 2 a plan section of thesame 011 the line 0c 00.

Similar letters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the details of the drawings, A represents a circularconcavo-convex plaque, which may be made of sheet metal or of any othersuitable material that can be used for the purpose, papier-maeh beingpreferred.

a Ct indicate mountains in the background, painted on the face of theplaque, and b the sky, also painted on the face of the plaque.-

B B represent mountains forming the sides of a gorge or narrow valley;D, a stream flowing through the gorge; O, a bridge spanning the streamat the farther end of the gorge, and E a railway extending along oneside of the gorge. The mountains B B, the stream, the bridge, and therailway are all in relief, as shown in Fig. 2, and formed or molded frommy newly-invented composition, which had previously been secured to oragainst the face of the plaque.

The material for making the parts of the picture which are shown inrelief is composed of the following ingredients in about the proportionsgiven, viz: one pound of glue, six

pounds of pulverized whiting, one-half pound of paper, and one-halfpound of rosin; but the rosin may be omitted, although it is a valu ableingredient. The paper is soaked in a quart or so of water until itbecomes a pulp, the glue is boiled, and the rosin is melted. Thesethreeingredients are then thoroughly mixed with the whiting andstirreduntil the mixture becomes of about the consistency of dough. I then takeparts of this dough and dip a side of it in thin glue and apply it tothe surface of the plaque. \Vhere possible the parts are molded intoconvenient shape with the hands before being applied. Vhen metallicplaques are used or others having a surface against which the glue wouldnot safely hold the composition, 1 puncture freely the surface to becovered, and when I apply the composition I force portions of it throughthe perforations and flatten out the parts of said compositionwhich'protrude on the reverse side of the plaque, so as to form a headsimilar to the head of a rivet. I then take a modeling-tool and cut outand form such figures and forms as I desire to have appear in relief inthe picture. After the composition has thoroughly hardened I paint boththe figures and forms made therein and the plain surface of the plaquein either oil or water colors to eoinplete the picture desired to beshown.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. The herein-described process of forming pictures, which consists inpainting the background of said picture on a plain surface and fasteninga suitable composition to the other parts of said surface and cuttingtherein the figures and bodies which are to form the foreground of thepicture, substantially as specified.

2. The herein-described process of forming pictures, which consists inpainting the background of said picture on a plain body, puncturiug aseries 01? holes through the part of said body whereon the foreground isto be represented, applying a suitable composition to the puncturedportion of said body, forcing parts of the same through the holes andclinching said parts on the reverse side of said body, and then cuttingin said composition the figures and bodies Which are to form theforeground of the picture, substantially as specified.

3. The herein-described process of forming pictures, which consists inpainting the background of said picture on a plain surface and fasteninga composition composed of Whitin g, glue, and paper to the other partsof said surand bodies Which are to form the foreground 25 of thepicture, substantially as specified.

OTTO J. R. BERNER.

Witnesses:

GEO. A, LANE, WM. R. i'rERHART.

